Mgr, Sftwre Deliv&Release-(2300006945)

Job
:Technology

Primary Location
:Asia-India-Chennai

Schedule
:Full-time

Employee Status
:Permanent

Posting Date
:12/Apr/2024, 2:22:15 PM

Unposting Date
:Ongoing

Role Responsibilities

This role in Operational Enablement Hive within CCIB T&I for the position of Release Management Lead. The position will be key to the strategic programs that are being worked upon as part of the Hive's development teams.
• Manage, coordinate, and oversee the various release phases as mandated by bank's System Delivery Framework.
• Responsible for implementing and managing release processes for code through development, test, and production environments
• Extensive experience in preparation of release calendar & plan, create a change request, System Delivery Framework controls includes collecting all evidences to get final review and change request approvals etc..
• Day to day management of change requests in relation to the project plans to ensure agreed deadlines are met.
• Foster strong working & collaborative relationships with the business & technology stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate to stakeholders the release status, highlight risks, and propose issue resolution
• Be an integral part of an Agile engineering team and work collaboratively with fellow engineers and product owners
• Good knowledge of release management process & tools, remedy management
• Well-versed with Agile methodology and global delivery model
• Excellent communication skills.
• Responsible to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments, with an emphasis on process automation.
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews as well as Post Implementation retrospectives.
• Develops scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
• Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
• Responsible to make sure the availability of development and test environment for the release.
• Able to handle any adhoc release with business stakeholders and development team collaboratively

Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the [team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders
• CCIB & COO

Other Responsibilities
• Align release management as per Jira release process, work with PMO to prepare, manage & execute the release schedule.
• Ensuring that zero defects in release management process steps & risk review.
• Release process automation & release 'best practice' improvements delivered
• Utilize Automation of Regression suits to cut rollout time.
• Effective collaboration with all stakeholders.
• CAB review & CR approvals from respective release stakeholders

Our Ideal Candidate
• Any Industry recognised certifications will be an added advantage

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• Good experience in feature based agile release management Industry standard Java/J2EE application & AI/ML Platforms.
• Good Understanding of Big Data (Hadoop ) & Tools like Tableau , Power BI etc.
• Good development/scripting review skills includes implementation steps, shell/ansible/etc, DB scripts, Control-M setup
• Good to have knowledge in Core Java, DB & Python.
• Good understanding of version control systems like GIT.
• Good to have experience in AWS/Azure Cloud environment
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with attention to details.
• In-depth understanding of software development life cycle and role of release management
• Good knowledge and experience in understanding project requirements and prepare all the release management activities
• Good understanding and experience in Agile work experience.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Working experience/knowledge of using release management & risk tracking tools.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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